#gold master

We don't really do discs anymore. We used to do them for builds on dev machines, but now that we've all got sufficiently fast internet connections and sufficiently large hard drives, all we do are digital builds now. Even our submission candidates are digital now. To my understanding, we really only make discs when we've passed cert and we're going to gold master. Even the physical discs you get today often just contain the same internet-based installer that you'd download from the digital store.

I don't think disc builds have been a thing since two console generations ago, the X360/PS3/Wii era. We actually made regular disc builds back then because we had to test things like streaming data off of the optical disc. I remember having to come up with solutions for desynchronized audio issues because data were still being streamed from the disc when we loaded a saved game from a cold boot at a particular place in the game I was working on. Nowadays we can fully install the game to the SSD and we no longer have to worry about those kind of technical issues.

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I’m still crunching so it is still difficult for me to find the time for full length posts, but I’ve gotten a number of questions about Cyberpunk 2077 getting delayed again after going gold and it’s a pretty quick answer.

The cert process generally has two sets of criteria - deal breakers that fail outright (e.g. crashing, using incorrect platform trademarks like button names/icons, etc.), and things that don’t cause outright failure but are worth a point value. If a game accumulates too many points, it also results in cert failure. However, if the game has few enough points, it can pass cert with no required changes. 

There’s also window between a full pass and cert failure called “conditional pass” which is not quite bad enough to fail, but still bad enough to require fixes. Conditional passes come with a list of must-fix issues in a day 1 patch. No day 1 patch means no approval. What almost certainly happened was that Cyberpunk 2077 got a conditional cert pass due to enough issues that weren’t bad enough to fail cert outright but also weren’t benign enough to get a full pass. This was their “going gold” status - they got the conditional pass from cert.

Longtime readers should know that patches also require certification and can also fail... which is almost certainly what happened in this case. CDPR most likely failed cert for their day 1 patch and thus must continue to crunch to try to fix it. They probably did not expect to fail cert (again), but they also cannot release the game without passing cert, so they had to delay the game (again) despite “going gold”. My suspicions are that they devs are probably running on fumes thanks to having crunched for a year and a half already.

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In the old days, a gold master was the disc containing final code and assets that was burned by the dev studio and sent to the CD pressing plants for duplication, usually via courier or delivery service. It was a physical golden-colored disc that was the master copy that the duplicates would come from, so it was called “gold master”. The factories would duplicate them en masse and then bundle them up and ship them out to distributors and retailers, who put them on the shelves for customers to physically pick up or send them out as packages to be delivered to customers at their homes.

Nowadays, things are a little different. Gold master is no longer a physical object, it’s just a status for a specific build - everything up to this code repository changelist is in the build. We can submit the build digitally for certification and, pending approval for the finished binaries, what we send to the disc-pressing plants. We also submit the online installation files for the corresponding build to the various digital platforms as well - Steam, EGS, Playstation Store, XBox Store, Apple App Store, Google Play Store, etc. They’re the ones who handle the digital distribution and such. Distributing a digital update uses the exact same channels - the systems allow us to mark a patch as required to play and their systems auto-update the clients who try to play it with the latest patch. 

For the storefronts and such, most stores have storefront templates that we supply the materials for (e.g. images, text, video, etc.). It is sometimes possible to get special treatment in those cases, but that’s extremely rare (and expensive) - it usually requires both their engineers and ours working together to put up the special custom storefront. Making sure our store pages look correct is up to us, since we’re the ones who upload the assets for it, and it also requires platform blessing before it can go live. The same applies for the final build of the game and any patches we wish to deploy - they generally require an approval/cert process to make sure nothing really weird happens.

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Some thoughts about Apple’s macOS Sierra

“Since the middle of June, Mac developers have had the chance to pound on betas of Apple’s operating systems to find bugs and make sure their products are compatible. The public got their chance a couple of weeks later with macOS Sierra and iOS 10,” Gene Steinberg writes for The Tech Night Owl. “All told, more than a million have had their chance to see what Apple is working on, and there’s been…

So… the gold in the term “going gold” means “gold master” - the finalized master copy that will be duplicated to every disc that will be manufactured and sold at retailers. In the olden days of yore, there really wasn’t anything to be done after a game went gold. The game was finished and was being duplicated at the disc manufacturing plants in preparation of being shipped out to retailers everywhere. Any further changes were to be patches that the customers may or may not have ever seen. Typically, this meant that we developers would take some post-crunch rest and then start pre-production for the next project - an expansion to the game we just shipped, or a new game altogether.

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iOS 9 GM ve iOS 9.1 Beta 1 sürümü geliştiriciler için yayınlandı

Apple, iPhone 6s ve iPhone 6s Plus‘ı tanıttığı Hey Siri etkinliği sona erdikten hemen sonra fazla vakit kaybetmedi ve iOS ’in en son sürümlerini geliştiriciler için yayınladı. iOS 9‘un artık köprüden önce son çıkışı anlamına gelen Gold Master sürümüne ek olarak iOS 9.1 ’in ilk beta sürümü de geliştiricilere dağıtıldı.

16 Eylülde yayınlanacak iOS 9 ile birlikte iPhone ve iPad ’lere onları daha hızlı ve daha verimli yapacak yükseltmeler gelecek. Buna ek olarak Apple Pay, Notlar, Haritalar ve bunun gibi uygulamalar için de önemli güncellemeler ve yeni işlevler de sunuluyor. Apple ’ın yeni uygulaması Haberler de kullanıcılara mobil cihazlarda daha rahat şekilde haber ve makale okuma fırsatı sunacak. Buna ek olarak iPad ’lere de gerçek anlamda çoklu görev desteği geliyor.

Apple ’ın geliştiricilere dağıttığı iOS 9.1 ile hangi yeniliklerin geleceği bilinmiyor. Ancak bu yeni sürümün hata düzeltmeleri ve iyileştirmeler getireceğini rahatlıkla söyleyebiliriz.